Dagny

AWARDS SHORTLIST: MONSTAS: Best Gig of 2024

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It’s been quite the year, it’s almost Christmas and what would the festive season be without some recognition of the best of 2024? Over the next month we’ll shortlist five nominees in each of 17 categories for our 10th annual Oscars, or monstas if you will, of 2024.

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AWARDS SHORTLIST: Best Album Of 2024

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It’s been quite the year, it’s almost Christmas and what would the festive season be without some recognition of the best of 2024? Over the next 2 months we’ll shortlist five nominees in each of 17 categories for our Oscars, or 10th annual monstas if you will, of 2024.

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ALBUM OF THE MONTH: ELLE by Dagny (June 2024)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

TRACKLIST: Heartbreak In The Making; Same Again (For Love); Ray-Bans; Somebody’s Baby; Hate Being Alone; Strawberry Dream; Close; In My Bones

‘Maybe we’re not made forever, maybe I don’t get to grow older with you, This house is keeping us together, we’re so Close but I’ve never felt further from you …’

  • Read on for reasons including how ELLE is set to be the album of our summer
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GIG REVIEW: Dagny at the 02 Academy Islington

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By Neil Durham

WORTH A LOOK?: ****

WHEN?: Wednesday 3 April 2024, tour runs through 24 August 2024

SETLIST: Same Again (For Love); Backbeat; Ray-Bans; Please Look At Me; Used To You; Bye Bye Baby; Highs And Lows; Pretty; Come Over; Strawberry Dream; Love You Like That; Heartbreak In The Making; Brightsider; Somebody

‘You know I play Norway all the time?’ It’s Dagny’s 1st London gig this year and she understands people have come a long way to see her and so she wasn’t expecting someone to shout ‘Norway’ when she asks this north London audience where they’re from.

  • Read on for reasons including everything we know about Dagny’s new single
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PREVIEW: 9 reasons why we can’t wait for April 2024 starring Sir Ian McKellen in Player Kings

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  1. Player Kings starring Sir Ian McKellen

Director Robert Icke (Oresteia and Hamlet, Almeida) combines Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and McKellen (Mother Goose, Duke Of York’s Theatre) plays Falstaff alongside Richard Coyle’s (Ink, Almeida) Henry and Toheeb Jimoh’s (Romeo and Juliet, Almeida) Hal. Runs at the Noel Coward Theatre 1 April through 22 June 2024. Tickets McKellen’s ‘performance of a lifetime’ Player Kings review

  • Read on for reasons including new Pet Shop Boys album, Bananarama at the Palladium & Two Strangers
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SONG OF THE WEEK: Same Again (For Love) by Dagny (week beginning Thursday 20 July 2023)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

It’s Norwegian pop star Dagny Norvoll Sandvik’s 33rd birthday on Sunday (23 July 2023) and she has much to celebrate as this uptempo electro track with a live band feel is already top 25 in Norway while shaping up to enjoy similar success to its predecessor.

  • Read on for reasons including how to see Dagny in London in 2024
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SONG OF THE MONTH: Heartbreak In The Making by Dagny (June 2023)

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WORTH A LOOK?: *****

32-year-old Norwegian singer Dagny Norvoll Sandvik’s debut collection Strangers/Lovers was an album of the month for us in January 2021 and this new single is a complete change in direction. 

  • Read on for reasons including how to see Dagny in London this weekend at Mighty Hoopla alongside Eurovision winner Loreen
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ALBUM OF THE MONTH: Strangers/Lovers by Dagny (January 2021)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2

OUT: now

TRACKLIST: Come Over; Somebody; Paris; Let Me Cry; Coulda Woulda Shoulda; Tension; Moment; Please Look At Me; Bad At Love (Interlude); It’s Only A Heartbreak; Bye Bye Baby; Coast To Coast;

Norwegian Dagny came to our attention in 2020 when Katy Perry interpolated her song Love You Like That into her own comeback single Never Really Over.

  • Read on for reasons including how Strangers/Lovers reminds of Prince, Robyn and Sigrid
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